Section 16, The Liquor Licensing Short title Ordinance

(I) The Governor may, if he thinks fit, upon thenomination of the Officer Commanding the Troops in Sierra Leone, the Naval Officer-in-Charge, Freetown, the Air Officer Commanding the Royal Air Force, Sierra Leone, or the Commissioner of Police, or if he shall be of the opinion that the public interest renders it expedient so to do, authorise the Accountant General to issue, without the payment of any fee, a Canteen Licence, in the form set forth in ScheduleD, or as near thereto as circumstances permit, to the owner or tenant of any canteen in Sierra Leone to sell intoxicating liquor, to be consumed on or off the premises. The Governor may at any time, by writing under his hand, cancel such licence. (2) A Canteen Licence shall render lawful the sale of intoxicating liquor in the canteen for which it is granted to such persons or classes of persons as may be specified in the licence. (3) If the holder of such licence, having no licence other than a Canteen Licence, sells, barters or exposes for sale or causes, permits or suffers to be sold, bartered or exposed for sale any intoxicating liquor to any person other than a person specified in the licence or a person belonging to a class of persons so specified, he shall be liable to the penalties by this Ordinance provided in the case of a person selling intoxicating liquor without licence.